Sun. 4/15/12 10:41pm
Droll:
Sigh... My gateway DJ to FMU was DJ Donna Dummer (Jason Forrest), and he once played Tarkus in the middle of a breakcore set. That's what set FMU hook for good. (I even loved your 9 minute DP jam on your other fill in a few days ago)

Sun. 4/15/12 10:43pm
George of Troy:
Dave, does that mean you *would* have the nerve to play "Love Beach"? Not that I'd want you to do that . . .

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Sun. 4/15/12 10:53pm
Dave M:
@Droll: Yeah, I used to talk to Jason (Donna Summer) about that. I guess he was too young to realize how "uncool" that stuff was. I was amazed at a Yes track he played one time, and he got angry. "Why does everyone put down Yes so much???!!!"

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Sun. 4/15/12 10:54pm
Dave M:
@Tom: Are you saying they were Australian, not English? I bet the word means the same thing there, though.

Sun. 4/15/12 10:55pm
miss cheri:
oh dave,,speaking of mila do you own any of her movies?? cause i do...

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Sun. 4/15/12 10:55pm
Dave M:
I was a big Yes fan in my day, but I have to admit there was a time you just couldn't play that stuff on the radio. I think the song was "America," which is actually great.

Sun. 4/15/12 10:59pm
Droll:
I think Jason would have written "WHY DDOEES EVEERRRRYOOONEEEE PUUUUUUT DOWHN HYES!????!!!!!!!!" A few weeks ago ScottW played all four sides of Tales from Topographical Oceans simultaneously (I admit partial blame for seeding that idea). I guess he missed the memo.

Sun. 4/15/12 11:00pm
Entertainment Tonite:
I heard Mila and Ellen and Kate Winslet are forming a combination Bangles/ELP tribute band

Sun. 4/15/12 11:13pm
Entertainment Tonite:
Yeah, I was there too, Dave. Seeing the upsides and downsides of any kind of music is what made me a bad sidetaker, and eventually an FMU listener...

Sun. 4/15/12 11:13pm
jeff:
killer

Sun. 4/15/12 11:14pm
Marc:
I know, it's just one of those weird things that make your blood tingle.

John Cage, back when I worked for him, had "invented" this system called "Mesostics" wherein you could find a "secret" phrase hiding in plain sight using chance operations against a chosen text. Similarly weird things popped up then.

Sun. 4/15/12 11:22pm
Droll:
Prog rock, despite being rock's perennial whipping boy, is one of rock's most durable genres. There are still lots of new bands, albums, and the old fans don't die, they just stop buying re-mastered box sets.

Sun. 4/15/12 11:35pm
G:
@Droll: If the anti-proggers weren't so **defensive** about prog, they wouldn't have made such a point about keeping Yes out of the RnR HoF. Dave Marsh (one of the main nomination determiners) ranges strictly from punk to Bruce S., nothing flashier than that. -- That's the Dave Marsh who called Queen the first genuinely fascist rock band. So he's still fighting the good anti-prog fight even today, 35 years later.

Sun. 4/15/12 11:45pm
Droll:
G, Good point -- Anti-prog rhetoric is often so out of proportion to the "crime" of playing too many notes that we must assume the haters have something to hide: a secret fetishistic love for 9 minute songs with 7/8 time signatures, Mellotron, and flute solos.

Sun. 4/15/12 11:50pm
G:
I think it was really politics/ideology: In other words, if punk rebelled against social injustice and was somehow left of center or anarchistic, then the music it was rebelling against must be at least crypto-fascist. Ironic, given the gentle newagey lyrics of Yes, and the lack of any rightwingness in prog music. But I suppose if you are geared up and bound and determined to fight, you are going to create an us-vs.-them template regardless of the actual facts.

There's a lot of good stuff in both punk and prog (and a lot of schlock in both, too). Why the manicheanism?

Sun. 4/15/12 11:55pm
Droll:
. o O (It's interesting that even here with open-minded self-selecting WFMU listeners, prog still carries such enormous baggage. I don't think I could name another music genre which would split the comments board like that)

Sun. 4/15/12 11:59pm
Andrew Waterloo:
@G, There is another ideal where rock is more appropriately a more youthful, urban, and reckless genre that is more suited for the dance hall. There is a feeling that prog and many of the bigger classic rock bands betray that.

Fri. 4/20/12 12:52pm
Listener Bob (2907):
Listening on the archives. It's good to hear you back on the air again.